It just needs to be made public before the B21 so I can accuse the US of copying H20 on social media. This is the key requirement for the H20, far more important than payload/range, stealthiness or speed.
H-20 bomber (with H-X, JH-XX)
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Let's hope it does a Huawei and releases the day before
Ok, Xi'an AC, now you have a date to be earlier! 
It doesn't need to fly before that date anyway, it just needs to look nice !Ok, Xi'an AC, now you have a date to be earlier!
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B21 unveiling has been brought forward to Dec 2022 thats just a few months away
I doubt we will see H20 before then
To be fair it doesn't ever need to be public, revealing your stealth bomber to the public will only allow your adversary to model and estimate it's capabilities. The Americans do it to intimidate their enemy and justify their multi-billion budget to tax payers, China does not need to do either.
It will be better if the first time the US learns of a Chinese stealth bomber be that one of their carriers gets randomly sunk during a hot war.
It’s what they are not unveiling that matters.
Dude, they’d want you to know the maiden flight actually, there’s really no point hiding this thing since deterrence is the whole point here, having said that it’s unlikely that they would officially publish anything about it but they would definitely allow images going around
This may be something that nobody knows about but is there any information about development of internal weapons mounts?
A bomber internal mount is very different than a fighter internal mount due to the depth of the bay and much heavier munitions. Based on my knowledge China has never built internal cruise missile mounts like US and Russia did with their rotary launchers.
A bomber internal mount is very different than a fighter internal mount due to the depth of the bay and much heavier munitions. Based on my knowledge China has never built internal cruise missile mounts like US and Russia did with their rotary launchers.
China has never built internal weapons bay for fighter before J-20 either.
There is always a first time for everything.And I don't see a technical reason for a bomber's bay being more challenging than its fighter counterpart. Remember, without speed depth and weight aren't problems, the aerodynamic impact when opened especially the shock from incoming air flow is the challenge. While bomber's deeper bay is a thing, fighter's much higher speed is even more challenging in terms of stability of the aircraft and stress to the structure.